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john mcafee went into hiding. he hears someone is out to murder him. >> reporter: police in belize labeled john mcafee as a person of interest in the murder of gregory fall. fall, a fellow american, lives next to the software family -- company founder on the caribbean island. the body was discovered over the weekend with a gunshot wound in the head. >> he was laying on the floor covered in blood. >> reporter: he is in hiding and fears for his life, trying to stay one step ahead of a belize police unit he said wants to kill him. >> to put myself in their hands is lunacy, i really do. what i can expect is the gsu will do what it does, beat me soundly until a confess to a multitude of sins and then simply execute me. >> reporter: mcafee denies killing his neighbor but does admit the two have had differences. the pair had a dispute over several dog's mcafee kept at his beach side villa. >> i didn't kill him. good lord. i can't consider myself doing anything like that. okay, so if i am a suspect, why are they arresting
john mcafee went into hiding. he hears someone is out to murder him. >> reporter: police in belize labeled john mcafee as a person of interest in the murder of gregory fall. fall, a fellow american, lives next to the software family -- company founder on the caribbean island. the body was discovered over the weekend with a gunshot wound in the head. >> he was laying on the floor covered in blood. >> reporter: he is in hiding and fears for his life, trying to stay one step...
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john henrehan has more on details. john? >> reporter: compared to surrounding cities and counties, d.c. has a lot of schools. 123 schools and 117 buildings. administrators want to cut the number of buildings and focus resources. in a nutshell, he's the problem. a few years ago, there were 85,000 students in the d.c. public school system. today, there are 45,000 students. chancellor henderson said it's time to close 20 more school buildings and concentrate resources at remaining schools. and on that hit-list, farraby hope academy where many of the buildings are no longer okay boyed. nowadays, there are 215 students in the large farrahby hope building. >> we can not continue to invest in the same things that we have been investing in that have gotten us the results that we have gotten. we have made some progress but need to make more radical progress and that means concentrate ourselves resources into the things that we know will affect teaching and learning. >> reporter: a large part of the problem? explosive growth of the ci
john henrehan has more on details. john? >> reporter: compared to surrounding cities and counties, d.c. has a lot of schools. 123 schools and 117 buildings. administrators want to cut the number of buildings and focus resources. in a nutshell, he's the problem. a few years ago, there were 85,000 students in the d.c. public school system. today, there are 45,000 students. chancellor henderson said it's time to close 20 more school buildings and concentrate resources at remaining schools....
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. >> reporter: the scandal embroiled afghanistan commander general john allen. when asked if the fbi should have revealed the investigation to him in the country prior to the election, the president withheld judgement. >> it's possible had we been told, you would be sitting here asking me a question why were you interfering in a criminal investigation. >> reporter: on the fiscal cliff the country faces at the end of the year, the president insisted he would not extend cuts for well -- for the wealthy and demanded that middle class tax cuts get extended now. >> i am confident folks in both parties can make that happen. what i'm not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% we can't afford and, according to economists, we'll have the least positive impact on our economy. >> reporter: the president grew emotional when asked about republicans who have blasted u.n. ambassador susan rice for her comments on the benghazi attack, adding it would not affect her possible nomination as secretary of state. >> for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who h
. >> reporter: the scandal embroiled afghanistan commander general john allen. when asked if the fbi should have revealed the investigation to him in the country prior to the election, the president withheld judgement. >> it's possible had we been told, you would be sitting here asking me a question why were you interfering in a criminal investigation. >> reporter: on the fiscal cliff the country faces at the end of the year, the president insisted he would not extend cuts for...
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house speaker john boehner said, quote, i believe that we can do this. the top democrat nancy pelosi said she's confident a solution might be in sight. the lawmakers need to reach a deal with the president to avert a series of tax increases and spending cuts. they're scheduled to take affect january 1st. >>> coming up next on the news edge six, the much anticipated beltway express lanes hour,as -- hours away from opening. what you need to know. sue. >> and the weekend about to get started around d.c. lots of sunshine today and still running a little below average. we're trying to make a couple of sweeps to the weekend forecast. i will follow you in on that in a few minutes. lindsay, what is going in sports. >> below average doesn't work in sports. d.c. unite side a must-win and the wizards must win and redskins will get helping hands back this weekend. later in sports as the news edge at 6 continues. . >>> drivers will get the new test drive starting tomorrow. the five-year construction project adds four new lanes from the beltway to springfi
house speaker john boehner said, quote, i believe that we can do this. the top democrat nancy pelosi said she's confident a solution might be in sight. the lawmakers need to reach a deal with the president to avert a series of tax increases and spending cuts. they're scheduled to take affect january 1st. >>> coming up next on the news edge six, the much anticipated beltway express lanes hour,as -- hours away from opening. what you need to know. sue. >> and the weekend about to...
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she and 11 others found enough compelling evidence to convict him in the murder of john mccormick. >> i certainly remembered feeling that the evidence was so strong if it was scientific evidence as it was presented that it was enough for us to question the alibi. >> reporter: in fact an fbi agent told the court there was a one in 10 million chance that the hair didn't belong to him. susan says she remembers careful deliberations but is conlater. >> intellectually i don't feel responsible i think that it was a thoughtful process in the deliberations and that we made as a group, we made what i think ended up as a unanimous decision if everybody didn't come along at the same pace. based on what there was that we were offered. emotionally, i feel terrible. >> reporter: another juror anita told the court i remember the other jurors when we got in the jury room saying that if they found the stocking cap with his hair, then he had to be guilty. and that was it. that's what the jury based everything on. how else could his hair get in there unless he had it on? the u.s. torn's office is is not
she and 11 others found enough compelling evidence to convict him in the murder of john mccormick. >> i certainly remembered feeling that the evidence was so strong if it was scientific evidence as it was presented that it was enough for us to question the alibi. >> reporter: in fact an fbi agent told the court there was a one in 10 million chance that the hair didn't belong to him. susan says she remembers careful deliberations but is conlater. >> intellectually i don't feel...